PDF Solutions, Inc. (PDFS)

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PDF Solutions, Inc.'s filings since 2017 show 1 warning event: an auditor change (8-K item 4.01, the latest 2018-09-18) (its current reports).

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PDF Solutions, Inc.'s 10 filed years say what it did: revenue went from $107 million in fiscal 2016 to $219 million in fiscal 2025, up 8.2% a year; it rose in 6 of 9 years; the deepest fall was 20% from fiscal 2016 to fiscal 2019; net income was positive in 3 of 10 of those years (its annual reports).

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Over the 3 fiscal years to 2025-12-31, PDF Solutions, Inc.'s diluted share count grew about 1.8% a year, and dividends and buybacks returned about 16% of its operating cash flow over 3 years (its filed statements). Its officers and directors filed 2 sales and 0 purchases of their own stock on the open market in the year to 2026-10-19 (their Form 4 filings).

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Return on equity: in the fiscal year ended 2025-12-31, PDF Solutions, Inc. lost about 0 cents for every dollar of shareholders' money, and gross profitability: its products earned about 38 cents per dollar of everything the company owns. Leverage: it owed about 35 cents per dollar of assets, and net share issuance: its share count grew 0.7% over the year (the filed statements).

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PDF Solutions, Inc.'s standing among 218 graded names in its industry family: revenue of $219 million in fiscal 2025 ranks in the bottom 37% by size; a net margin of -0.3% ranks in the top 46%; revenue growth of 13.8% a year over the last 3 filed years ranks in the top 44% (its annual reports).

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PDF Solutions, Inc.'s leadership, from its insiders' filings and its current reports: the chief executive on the record is Kibarian, John Kachig (President and CEO, as filed), filing under that title since 2006-01-05, 20.9 years (top 1% of its family); the 10 officers and directors filing in the last fifteen months have been on the record a median of 7.4 years (top 21%); 1 officer or director change was reported on Form 8-K since 2023-11-13, against the 10 people in charge now (top 7%; fewer changes for each person reads higher) (the Form 4 record, its Form 8-K reports). Years count from a person's first filing in the SEC's data sets, which begin in 2006, so each is a floor.

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PDF Solutions, Inc.'s room to grow, from the newest filed statements (fiscal 2025): cash of $42 million against debt of $65 million leaves -5.4% of its assets as net cash, bottom 16% of its family; cash from operations less capital spending is -3.9% of revenue (bottom 28%); a gross margin of 72.3% (top 46%); research spending of 29.3% of revenue (top 24%) (its annual report).

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PDF Solutions, Inc.'s growth drivers, from the filed years to fiscal 2025: revenue grew 13.8% a year over the last three filed years against 8.2% over all 10, speeding up (top 6% of its family); the newest year grew 22.1% (top 27%); research spending grew 4.6% a year (bottom 41%); capital spending grew 57.1% a year (top 11%) (its annual reports). PDF Solutions, Inc. reported 2 product lines in fiscal 2025: Platform at $181 million (83%), Volumebased at $38 million (17%); 2 of 2 grew against the year before (its annual report).

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PDF Solutions, Inc.'s newest year against its own record: revenue of $219 million in fiscal 2025 came in 11% above the $197 million its prior three years' pace pointed to (top 18% of its family); net income of $640 thousand against a prior three-year average of $1 million (bottom 11%); a net margin of -0.3% against 0.6% before (bottom 26%) (its annual reports).